Uncertainty surrounding Arkansas library funding undermines state’s literacy efforts

Uncertainty surrounding Arkansas library funding undermines state’s literacy efforts

(Getty Images)Two recent headlines in Arkansas related to reading seem completely at odds with each other. The state Library Board earlier this month tabled a vote on more than $1 million worth of quarterly funding for libraries, a delay that jeopardizes a number of programs. The board’s action — or lack of action, that is —  came the same week that the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that thousands of third graders are at risk of being held …